Posted on 06/27/2013 1:00:58 PM PDT by CedarDave
Except somebody else here says in CA and WA it’s carded. State laws vary. Heck local laws vary too, dry counties could really mess with the situation too.
Seems like the case should be open-and-shut. The guy must have a fool for a lawyer.
In a just society, the cop would not have charged this guy with open container, not when the law specifically requires greater than 1/2% alcohol for an open container charge.
In a just society, the prosecutor would not have prosecuted this guy for open container, not when the law specifically requires greater than 1/2% alcohol for an open container violation.
In a just society, the judge would have thrown out the open container charge in the original trial, even if the accused didn’t phrase his explanation in proper legal language, or the District Court judge would have directed the court appointment of a lawyer to handle this basic case and get the guy back to his normal life.
We live in the Obama society, where a 14 y/o kid can face a year in jail for wearing an NRA t-shirt, and a 6 y/o can be suspended and have a weapons violation on his permanent school record for chewing a Pop Tart into a “threatening” shape or for bringing a Lego “gun” smaller than a fingernail to school. This ruling makes complete sense - the guy didn’t pay a lawyer the proper fee to grease the system, and he will suffer. America is in deep trouble.
He is his own lawyer.
Carded or not in some instances has to do with the department the product falls under at the store, Ive been carded for sour mix and bloody mary mix, neither of which contained ANY alcohol. Does not always have anything to do with the law.
Then I see you caught my drift.
Yeah sometimes the stores are hyper on that, encountered that buying cold medicine. But somewhere in the local law will be if the have to or not.
Why is Bud Lite the “Sex Canoe of Beers”?
Because it’s f-—g close to water.
In New Mexico (where I live and this occured), an “alcoholic beverage” is defined as:
“all alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine, and spirits that contain one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume”
Odul’s has less than “one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume”
That’s the test. Period.
Cant wait for self driving cars.
Get rid of all this stuff.
I was charged with a DUI even though I blew a zero.
My great sin was that I was to nervous to stand on one foot because I just got stopped by the cops.
Then he should have hired a lawyer and won this 5 years ago.
Lemon extract——about 80%.
Good job. As one who also put the plug in the jug 20 years ago this October I can say that a cold N/A beer is enjoyable now and then. And no, it doesn’t make me want a “real” beer.
Why? Seems to me the judge has a vendetta here if he doesn't even know the difference between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
I drink it because it tastes like beer and the medications I take do not allow me to drink alcoholic beverages.
Not sure what any of that has to do with this poor slob who got the ticket, or what his motivation is for fighting it. My guess is there is some reason he got the ticket, something other than the beer. I have been there in my younger days.
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